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Contrary to most people's experience, my son's iBook 500 has much poorer reception than the TiBook, often no better than 30-50 feet. Any ideas why we're getting such poor Airport reception with the iBook?
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iBook Airport Problem
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Posted 30 July 2002 - 06:27 PM
We're using our iMac as base station. I get the expected so-so Airport range with my TiBook 550.
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Posted 31 July 2002 - 01:27 PM
No, I'm not answering my own question...just trying to keep my posting active and visible. Any help would be appreciated. Otherwise, I may make a trip down to the closest Apple Store and talk with the resident genius.
Thanks.
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Posted 31 July 2002 - 02:07 PM
Are there any other base stations near you? I have had a problem with range where my iBook has simply grabbed an IP form a neighbor. I got very frustrated about the lack of range until I figured out what had happened.
Otherwise my IBook gets great reception.
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Posted 21 August 2002 - 05:22 PM
An update. Brought my son's iBook to the Apple Store in Peabody, MA, and spent about 45 minutes witht he most helpful "genius," Jared on 8/18. He finally surmised that the iBook had a faulty antenna and offered to send the iBook in for service. It was sent to Houston on 8/19.
Amazingly, we received the iBook back today (8/21), fully functional, with a new internal antenna.
Very impressive service all the way around. With all the Apple bashing around here, credit where credit is due.
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